Same-store sales growth is an important measure to gauge the performance of a restaurant chain since it includes only the restaurants opened for at least a year and excludes the newly opened (and closed) restaurants, sales of which might be unusually low or high.
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There is no question that the blogosphere, fast-growing as it is, has yet to nail down one way to measure itself or gauge its activity.
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Both the overall homeowners measure and separate mortgage gauge peaked in the third quarter of 2007.
The measure is a key gauge of a retailer's expectations because it excludes stores that open or close during the year.
The gauge, a measure of bank-borrowing costs that is calculated daily in London, has steadily increased in recent weeks from a low of 0.245% in mid-June.
But the left-right measure is not the most telling gauge of the vice-president.
And, as Michael Feroli of JPMorgan points out, the affordability gauge depends on what measure of home prices you look at.
Page views mean a great deal to brands and startups, who are trying to measure success of new products and gauge public opinion.
Instead, they used a measure called recombination distance, a gauge of how likely genes are to be reshuffled when sperm and egg cells are produced.
The broadest measure of income provides the most meaningful gauge of the relative impact of taxes on households.
By that measure, Startup America's success is difficult to gauge.
In London, Picarro will place analyzers on the ground around the city as well as one on a bus to measure carbon emissions at road level and another on a plane to gauge emissions at higher altitudes.
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As output is hard to measure in most professional jobs, managers will fall back on the oldest gauge of performance: favouring those employees who get in early and leave late.
It is hard to gauge the pain of relative poverty because no one knows how to measure happiness.
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